Sarah tucker



No. 614,520. Patented Nov. 22, I898.

S. TUCKER.

PAPER FASTENER.

(Application filed Dec. 28, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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SARAH TUCKER, OF IIANDS\VORTII, ENGLAND.

PAPER-FASTENER.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 614,520, dated November 22, 1898.

Application filed December 28 1897- derial No. 663,951. (No model.) A

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SARAH TUCKER, a subj ect of the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of Mentone House, Robert road, Handsworth, in the county of Stafford, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fasteners for Papers and the Like, (for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No.1,646, hearing date January 24,1895) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in fastenings for papers, woolen and other fabrics, feathers, and other similar purposes, and has reference more particularly to that class of fastening now generally know-n as paper-fasteners, and which consists of a head having two legs of metal which are pointed at their front ends and passed through the paper, 850., and then turned or bent down fiat upon the rear side and generally diametric to each other. In the use of such fasteners it is found to be troublesome to divide these two legs of metal after they have been passed through the paper, 850., and in so doing the thumb or finger is frequently scratched; and the obj eot of this my invention is to obviate these and consociate difficulties, and in order to more clearly explain it I'have appended hereunto an illustrative sheet of drawings, in which- Figure l is a front View, and Fig. 2 a side View, of a fastener made according to this my invention. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view upon line A B. (See Fig. 2.) Fig. 4 shows the fastener being operated upon when in use. Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate its application to various uses.

Similar numbers refer throughout the several views to the same thing or part.

10 is the head of the fastener, which may be of any shape or size or design to suit the particular purpose to which it is applied-as, for instance, that shown in Fig. 1 may be used as an ordinary paper-fastener, or a separate head may be made ofany desirable form and attached thereto. That shown at 10,Fig. 5, serves as a suspender, while that in Fig. 6 is adapted to serve as a ticket-holder, 11 being the ticket, which is held by the tips 12 of the head being turned over onto the card.

13 is the long leg, and let the short leg, of the fastener, and I make the long leg 13 to be pointed at its end and also to be longitudinally hollow or grooved, as seen in section in Fig. 3. The shorter leg 14 I make with a rounded or semicircular end at 15 and make its sectional shape to be flat, so that it shall lie in the longer leg in the manner shown in Fig. 3. This grooving of the longer leg gives great strength and rigidity, and particularly so to the point, by which it may be pierced readily through material which otherwise would not be permissible, while it at the same time protects and clears the way for the shorter leg to follow. The rounded end of the shorter leg also furnishes a ready means of following the piercing made by the longer leg. Hence when the fastener is pushed through the material, as seen in Fig. 4, the thumb or finger may readily and without hurt push back first the longer leg and then, as usual, push back the second shorter leg.

In cases such as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 the two legs are made, as usual, by slitting the metal at 16 and 17 and then bending the strips thus formed.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-=- A paper-fastener having a head, and two legs, one of which is longer than the other and grooved and pointed; the shorter leg being fiat with rounded end, and lying within the groove of the longer leg, all substantially as set forth and shown.

SARAH TUCKER.

Witnesses:

O. HAYWARD POWELL, Ennns'r W. J ONES. 

